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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Online robot building communities – forums and social media

Robot building is a topic that shares a space with the general community of makers. Makers are everywhere. There are ham radio and electronics enthusiasts who are more connected to the electronics side of robot building, and there are artists who are using devices such as the Arduino and Raspberry Pi to bring their creations to life. Teachers are using these devices to show children the world of technology or teach other subjects to them. There are also people with problems to solve or brilliant and sometimes crazy ideas to try out.

Robotics is part of the maker community, which has a strong presence on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Search for tags such as #raspberrypi (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RaspberryPi), #arduino (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arduino), and #makersgonnamake (https://twitter.com/hashtag/makersgonnamake) to find these communities. A rallying point is the @GuildOfMakers (https://twitter.com...